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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (12 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The HSE is responsible for the administration of treatment in this case, therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The current General Medical Services (GMS) General Practitioner (GP) Capitation Contract was introduced in 1989 and is based on a diagnosis and treatment model. Section 11 of the current contract states as follows: “The medical practitioner shall provide for eligible persons, on behalf of the relevant Health Board, all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Accommodation (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Deputy would not expect me to comment on or refer to any of the individual inspections to which he has pointed, but I repeat the comment and observation on how the particular standards play out in particular nursing homes. I take the Deputy's point, that it may not always be immediately clear to us if we walk into a nursing home that the standards are wholly appropriate when we view a...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Accommodation (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: I thank Deputy McNamara for raising the issue and for his insights and observations on it. I will make some general remarks at the outset. The overarching policy of the Government is to support older people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible and to support access to quality, long-term residential care where that is appropriate....

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Alleviation Measures (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: As indicated, I am taking this debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, who has an urgent commitment. I thank Deputy Donohoe for raising this issue and for affording the House an opportunity to revisit it since he last raised it in autumn. Other Deputies have also raised the matter. I assure the House that the impact of flooding on businesses and...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Alleviation Measures (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Deputy makes the case well, particularly his point on the necessity to have a process by which public infrastructure funded by the State should be factored into the question on the provision of cover by insurance companies. The Minister of State has made considerable progress in this matter and has received a great deal of co-operation in his work and that of the OPW's. I note the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive is responsible for the administration of the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme. e HSE has therefore been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The key objective of the Primary Care Strategy is to develop services in the community which will give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. The HSE has responsibility for the provision of Primary Care Centres and the maintenance of existing health centres. Therefore, this matter...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (7 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Feb 2013)

Alex White: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: My Department has allocated €50,000 to support community safety fora in the Tallaght Local Drugs Task Force area and a further €50,000 to community safety fora in the Clondalkin Local Drugs Task Force area this year. This funding will help to secure the long term sustainability of community safety initiatives developed by estate management groups in Killinarden and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: Dr James Reilly TD, Minister for Health announced, on the 1st February 2013, that Kalydeco, a new innovative medicine for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) in patients who have the G551D mutation, will be made available for patients in Ireland from the 1st of March.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Funding (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: On Budget Day, it was announced that the fees and allowances payable to certain health professionals will be reviewed. The professionals concerned are General Practitioners, Pharmacists, Dentists, Ophthalmologists, Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians who hold contracts with the HSE, Smeartakers contracted under the CervicalCheck programme and Consultant Psychiatrists who hold contracts...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: In circumstances where the taking of blood is necessary to either (a) assist in the process of diagnosing a patient or (b) monitor a diagnosed condition, General Practitioners (GPs) may not charge patients if they are eligible for free GMS services under the Health Act, 1970, as amended. It is the contracted responsibility of GPs to provide proper and necessary treatment to eligible persons....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Strategy (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: The implementation of the Primary Care Strategy is a priority for this Government. The objective is to develop services in the community which will give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. At the end of December 2010, there were 350 Primary Care Teams operating, i.e. holding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: Payments in respect of immunisations, out-of-hours services and special items of service are made to service providers by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service in accordance with the provisions of the respective contract for service which the service provider holds with the HSE. Consequently, the HSE has been requested to provide the specific information in tabular form on a regional basis...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Co-operatives (5 Feb 2013)

Alex White: 90% of the population have access to GP out-of-hours services in 14 centres nationally, including Westdoc. As the specific issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.